Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26
81. 80 PER YEAR.
NEWS NUGGETS.
Extracted from the Mine of Mis-
cellaneous Matters, on our
Claim and Assayed for
our Delivers after
knowledge.
Notice the Output.

| The "Colored Citizen,'' of Cincinnati,
has turned up it's toes''
/ Mrs. Rebecca Atkins, colored, died in
Buffalo, N. Y, last week, aged 1O3 years.
Mr.. Eugene Crawford, colored lis chief
clerk in large grocery in Delaware,
Ohio.
Hon. w. Worsham, colored, was re-
Gently elected to the Senate of w. Vir-
GINA.
Mr.. Manson Robinson is the only
colored registered plumber in Washing
ton, D. G.
Mr.. G. H. Parham, colored, of New
Albany, Ind, is baggagemaster at the
Air Line Depot.
Mr.. Sidney Tyson, colored, and Mis-;
Della Hutchinson, white, were recentlY
married in Oberlin, Ohio.
Within the past fifteen months colorsd
people Of Waco, Texas, have invested
over $50, 900 in real estate.
Mr.. Ed. Anderson has been appointed
to clerkship in the office of Recorder
of Deedsat Washington, D. C.
Rev. John White. an Arkansas colored
preacher, aged 1902, has just been
married to Miss Smith, young ladv
of IS. .. ~.
The Republican City Convention of
Topeka, Kan: nominated Mr.. w. I.
Jamison, colored, for Justice of the
Peace.
Prof. John IT, Jackson, colored, of
Wyandotte, Kan, has been appointed
clerk of the Board of Police Commits
sioners.
Mr.. William Dixon, colored, has been
appointed jaritor in the Office of the
clerk of the Supreme Court at Indian
apolis, Ind.
Pinckney Napoleon Pinchback, eldest
son of Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, has
graduated from the Philadelphia College:
of Pharmacy. He is % years of age.
Mr.. VIM. F. Anderson, colored. FORM
erly porter in the wholesale notion store.
OF Griffith Bros, of Dayton, Ohio, has
been promoted to clerkship for merit,
Mr.. Lewis Wright, has received
an appointment in the fire de-
partment of Xenia, Ohio. He is the
first coEored man ever appointed in that
city.
The Republicans of Youngstown, O.,
recently nominated George Ross for
constable and Oscar Borgess. for a mem
bership on the School Board. Both are
colored.
A colored man by the name of Lew
Foster and his white house-keeper, by
the name of Jennie Bushnell, were.
quietly married in Red Wing. Mimi,
last week.
There is great row in Memphis
Tenn, over the proposed expulsion.
from the public schools of a girl whose.
mother is white woman and is married.
to colored man
At the eighteenth annual commence
ment of Howard University held in
Washington on the 10th inst, there.
were twenty graduates in medicine, six.
in dentistry and six in pharmacy.
The following colored persons were
nominated at the citizens convention
of Wyandotte, Kan, for members of the,
school board, VIM. Alexander and Dr..
Il. II. Brown; councilman, Prof. ]. H.
Jackson; for constable, G. Patterson.
Mr.. Arthur Rose, colored, of Cincsn-,
natl has sued female singer for $40, OOo
damages. He attended the theater
Sunday night and the singer, while rem
dering the song "Dar's New Coon in
Town" pointed directly at Rose.
Mr.. Charles E. Bentley, colored, will
graduate from the Chicago College of
Dental Surgery, March 2Sth. Mr.. Allan
Wesley, also colored, will, within a week
or two, have the right to attach M. D. to-
his name, conferred by the Chicago,
Medical College.
Hon. Frederick Douglass writes his
son, Frederick, Jr., from Naples, that
his wife and himself are we'll and enjoy
ing themselves a great deal on their
tour. He did not indicate when he
would return home. Mr.. Douglass said
ne climbed the highest pyramid on the
Nile, but would not do it again for hat
full of gold.
DR.. R. G. Berry, white, and Annie
Thompson, colored, were RECENTLY
united in wedlock at Gainesville, Texas.
The doctor is wealthy man, and Miss.
Annie is in good circumstances. They
have defied the laws ofTexas forbiddine.
the lntermarriage of colored and whites,
There was fear of lynching the doctor.
lie was arrested, but promptly gave
bond and was released.